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Episode 121 — The Uber Mutation

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss Benchmark’s lawsuit against Uber and Cloudfare’s ban of Daily Stormer. Presented by MailChimp Links Ben Thompson: The Uber Dilemma — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Venture Capital and the Internet’s Impact — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Apple and the Oak Tree — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Waymo’s Lawsuit Against Uber — Stratechery Daily Update Ben Thompson: Does Uber Have a Strategy Problem? — Stratechery Daily Update Ben Thompson: Crisis at Uber — Stratechery Daily Update Ben Thompson: Cloudfare and Daily Stormer — Stratechery Daily Update Ben Thompson: Facebook Content Guidelines — Stratechery Daily Update Hosts Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery James Allworth, … Continue reading Episode 121 — The Uber Mutation

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0:00.0

Hi, James. Ben, how are you?

0:02.9

Annoid.

0:03.8

Oh, no. What's wrong?

0:05.3

It is my annual August annoyance, AAA.

0:09.0

Really? What's happened?

0:11.7

It's all the tweets we get saying, did you guys stop the podcast?

0:15.0

Is the podcast over?

0:16.3

I had this complaint every year. I also think I edit it out every year.

0:18.9

I think I'm going to leave it in this year because it keeps happening.

0:22.3

And so I know it's probably a little jerkish of me, but my response always is go back,

0:28.1

listen to the last minute of the last podcast where we said, as we do every year, we're going

0:32.7

to take a break over the summer.

0:34.2

I try to refrain from the snarky.

0:36.2

I guess you don't actually really listen to the

0:37.9

podcast, do you? Yeah, no, it's probably for the best. I mean, if they, I know, it's a good thing.

0:43.7

It's a, it's a good thing. It's a compliment. People miss us. Thank you. We missed you as well.

0:48.1

I know it's a good thing. Allow me, allow me my annoyance. And then I can feel guilty about it because I'm a guilt-ridden you know

0:54.2

guilt-ridden Midwestern. Well so I have a confession to make too. Do you know what I did over the

0:59.0

summer? Uh, well, before you can answer that. Hopefully more, hopefully more than you did last summer.

1:08.1

That's perhaps true. I bought a pair of AirPods and then I

1:11.6

downloaded her and then I started watching it. But I, every time I started watching it, something

1:17.2

stopped me. So I got close, but I still haven't quite watched it yet. How are the AirPods?

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